"A Poet Without Words..."
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Wrapping up a great year of music here in Mikroland.
Many thanks to everyone at earSnake who made the 12 Days Podcast such a success. You can still listen to the holiday and wintertime tracks until Jan 6. So head over to www.earsnake.com to listen in.
As soon as we get back, Gemini Wolf will be playing a stellar show with hip-hop artist Jneiro Janel's Shape of Broad Minds, whirling dervish, Kilroy and Kezoian DJ Bilwa at Johnny Brenda's on Saturday Jan. 5. (See flyer to the left). This will be your last chance to catch Gemini Wolf for a little while. We're taking a month or so off after this show, so don't sleep on it! We've been going non-stop since we put out our album back in May, so we're going to take some tima and write some new songs and work on the next record.
In Mikronesia news, I had a great gig at GATE last week. I got to play a great set, doing live sampling and manipulation of acoustic piano notes and textures as I played piano with the laptop. I look forward to exploring that sound more in 2008. Also in early in 2008 I'll be releasing a new album called vxvii on Kikapu.
As I stated in the beginning of this post 2007 has been a wonderful year. Whether performing on stage at the Annenberg Center with Pauline Oliveros, touring with Gemini Wolf, playing our amazing album release show at Art@Sophi, various recording projects with earSnake and Gears of Sand, performing and working with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd for the Rashomon series and the Fringe Festival, working with Nexus gallery, playing solo shows, jamming with friends, studying jazz piano, growing Gemini Wolf (breifly) to a nine-piece unit with a string quartet and everything I've forgotten- I'm very grateful for it all and look forward to all thing music that come up my way in 2008.
I'll leave with a recently posted review of my 2007 album Iris Or Comfortable Too by Fred M. Wheeler in Tokafi.
"...What is so remarkable about this CD is that Mikronesia should be called a poet although he uses no words and relies exclusively on instrumental means. His outstanding compositions bear the power to draw peoples’ attention to their inner selves, generate fantasies and trips into their souls in the process, thus working in an almost therapeutic way. A truly outstanding piece of art..."
Read the rest of the review here.
Wrapping up a great year of music here in Mikroland.Many thanks to everyone at earSnake who made the 12 Days Podcast such a success. You can still listen to the holiday and wintertime tracks until Jan 6. So head over to www.earsnake.com to listen in.
As soon as we get back, Gemini Wolf will be playing a stellar show with hip-hop artist Jneiro Janel's Shape of Broad Minds, whirling dervish, Kilroy and Kezoian DJ Bilwa at Johnny Brenda's on Saturday Jan. 5. (See flyer to the left). This will be your last chance to catch Gemini Wolf for a little while. We're taking a month or so off after this show, so don't sleep on it! We've been going non-stop since we put out our album back in May, so we're going to take some tima and write some new songs and work on the next record.
In Mikronesia news, I had a great gig at GATE last week. I got to play a great set, doing live sampling and manipulation of acoustic piano notes and textures as I played piano with the laptop. I look forward to exploring that sound more in 2008. Also in early in 2008 I'll be releasing a new album called vxvii on Kikapu.
As I stated in the beginning of this post 2007 has been a wonderful year. Whether performing on stage at the Annenberg Center with Pauline Oliveros, touring with Gemini Wolf, playing our amazing album release show at Art@Sophi, various recording projects with earSnake and Gears of Sand, performing and working with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd for the Rashomon series and the Fringe Festival, working with Nexus gallery, playing solo shows, jamming with friends, studying jazz piano, growing Gemini Wolf (breifly) to a nine-piece unit with a string quartet and everything I've forgotten- I'm very grateful for it all and look forward to all thing music that come up my way in 2008.
I'll leave with a recently posted review of my 2007 album Iris Or Comfortable Too by Fred M. Wheeler in Tokafi.
"...What is so remarkable about this CD is that Mikronesia should be called a poet although he uses no words and relies exclusively on instrumental means. His outstanding compositions bear the power to draw peoples’ attention to their inner selves, generate fantasies and trips into their souls in the process, thus working in an almost therapeutic way. A truly outstanding piece of art..."
Read the rest of the review here.